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Archive for November, 2011

jQuery Mobile 1.0 released: jQuery Mobile supports all of the major mobile platforms, and then some. .... There is some new documentation too http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0/index.html
BatmanJS 0.8.0 released: Which adds association support, pagination and stability improvements.
Faye-websocket released: The guys behind the Faye Ruby, Node and JavaScript messaging library have released a JavaScript websocket API for anyone to use.
Building an advent calendar: Christian Heilmann has written a couple of articles about building an advent calendar for Mozilla, well worth a read.
Handpicked jQuery Plugins: David Higgins has compiled a list of jQuery plugins that he's, as the name suggests, handpicked. He's creates it as a github repo and encourages people to fork it.
That's it for this week, enjoy.

Today sees the start of a new weekly blog series, aimed at designers and developers, where we look at the latest news in the JavaScript world. Without further ceremony lets get started...
jQuery 1.7.1 released: This release mostly includes minor enhancements, bug fixes and standardisations to the way the library works. The team will be opening the call for 1.8 suggestions shortly so if you have any features you'd like to see in jQuery head over and join in the discussion.
JSConf videos available: There are some really good talks available from this conference, some of our favourites are, How to be an open-source gangster by Marak Squires, a look at how to contribute to and create successful open source projects presented in an amusing gangster style. Polyfilling the gaps by Lea Verou takes you through the technique known as pollyfilling.
PopcornJS has reached the 1.0 milestone: Popcorn.js is an event system for HTML5 media developers. Think jQuery for video. You can leave the heavy lifting to Popcorn, and concentrate on what you do best: writing awesome code.
jQuery Fundamentals: from Rebecca Murphey is a free jQuery book that covers some basic JavaScript as well as most of the features of jQuery itself. There are notable contributions from big name developers such as James Padolsey and Paul Irish.
If you have any stories or libraries you'd like us to include contact us @media72.

Today we are looking at SEO and have put together a great collection of video resources to get you started on the road to SEO mastery.
1. First off we have "An introduction to SEO", a great video from Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz. If you're new to SEO this is an ideal video to get you started and includes heaps of good advice.
2. Next up we have "SEO Tips From Google Engineer Matt Cutts". A fatastic collection of tips from Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your sites ranking higher in search results.
3. "How important is it to have keywords in a domain name?". This video is useful if you're looking to buy a new domain but can't figure out if you want one that contains lots of keywords or a more memorable, brand-able domain name.
4. "An SEO Checklist for New Sites". If you're setting up a new website this is a must watch video to find out how to start marketing your website.

5. And finally "Can coding errors affect how a page is indexed?", ever wondered if poor quality code can hurt your search ranking? Find out in this video from Google.
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We backup all files and data every single hour, thats 24 backup's every day.

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Backups can be easily restored by our customers using our backup restore system right from the control panel.